What's the difference between ecstatic and overjoyed?

Ecstatic


Definition:

  • (n.) Pertaining to, or caused by, ecstasy or excessive emotion; of the nature, or in a state, of ecstasy; as, ecstatic gaze; ecstatic trance.
  • (n.) Delightful beyond measure; rapturous; ravishing; as, ecstatic bliss or joy.
  • (n.) An enthusiast.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Businesses will be ecstatic at today's decision because the Games will bring a colossal one-off commercial boost to the entire country," said the group's president, Michael Cassidy.
  • (2) It's only fair to note that Apple fans are ecstatic at the prospect.
  • (3) Happiness psychosis, because of the ecstatic emotions associated therewith, often involves a direct drive to do artistic work.
  • (4) Bloom is an ecstatic witness, and for him there are no half measures.
  • (5) With Connor Wickham’s late volleyed goal offering Sunderland no consolation, Pardew assumed centre stage at the final whistle, striding on to the pitch and saluting Palace’s rightly ecstatic travelling support.
  • (6) Sturgeon in plea to anti-independence voters over referendum plan Read more Although Sturgeon offered to compromise on the timing of a second vote, she brought 2,000 ecstatic delegates at the SNP spring conference in Aberdeen to their feet on Saturday declaring: “There will be an independence referendum.” Relations between Sturgeon and May have badly deteriorated since last summer and this was reflected throughout a defiant speech.
  • (7) A six-piece band comprising of Win Butler, Will Butler, Régine Chassagne, Tim Kingsbury, Jeremy Gara and Richard Reed Parry, as well as a moveable feast of other players, over the past nine years and two more albums – Neon Bible (2006) and The Suburbs (2010) – they have built a reputation for both the intrigue and intelligence of their songwriting, as well as for live shows that can seem ecstatic, desperate and electric all at once.
  • (8) The authors describe an epileptic patient with ictal ecstatic experiences and an interictal behavioral change of hypergraphia.
  • (9) Some will betray flickers of relief or ecstatic incredulity; other faces drop.
  • (10) Iceland’s players are in there bobbing up and down like a bunch of non‑leaguers ecstatic at being drawn against Everton in the third round of the Cup, a reminder of the miniature scale of this obsessive social experiment.
  • (11) This article provides a review of the nature and role of hallucinogens in the ecstatic religion of contemporary and historical cultures in order to establish a background for analysis.
  • (12) The meaty melodies are provided by John Squire, pinning down the guitar surging from caustic feedback to ecstatic wah-wah chugging – all in the space of a song.
  • (13) #RedSox @HunterFelt October 31, 2013 3.01am GMT Cardinals 1 - Red Sox 6, top of the 8th Freese hits a grounder that Bogaerts handles just fine, he throws it to first, Freese is out and the Fenway crowd is about to sing the loudest, most ecstatic version of "Sweet Caroline" in human history.
  • (14) In fact, the novel, which took nine years to write, has had an ecstatic reception by anyone's standards.
  • (15) George Miller’s ecstatically received Mad Max: Fury Road is also closing in on the race, following a recent wealth of critical awards, and Golden Globe nominations for picture and director.
  • (16) While what the BBC was calling a "mini-riot" happened both inside and outside the Millbank tower, the people in charge of its news channel were presumably ecstatic: this kind of stuff, after all, is what rolling news was invented for.
  • (17) His performance in Sir Nicholas Hytner’s production of One Man, Two Guvnors for the National Theatre, a role conceived especially for Corden, won ecstatic reviews in London and Broadway and won him, stunningly, the Tony award for best actor, beating a shortlist that included Philip Seymour Hoffman, Frank Langella and James Earl Jones.
  • (18) Photograph: Amber Jamieson for the Guardian Nick Haby, a 27-year-old marketing assistant and organizer of the #AstoriaforHillary event at Icon declared himself “ecstatic” about Clinton’s win.
  • (19) Daniel Sturridge calls winner ‘a brilliant feeling’ after England beat Wales Read more “I’d have been a lot less ecstatic if we’d not conceded that late one against Russia at the weekend which robbed us of a deserved victory,” said Hodgson, whose reaction had been joyful in the dugout.
  • (20) I made my way to the beach afterwards, exhausted but ecstatic, my head full of beer and Brazilian football, and practically danced the two miles back to my hotel, cooling my sore feet in the crashing waves.

Overjoyed


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We are overjoyed for Ashley and her fiancée, and we wish them the very best."
  • (2) The new MP, Marsha de Cordova, sounded overjoyed, after what was widely regarded as an especially energetic campaign.
  • (3) Mark Sampson was overjoyed to see his Lionesses become the first England team of either gender to reach a World Cup semi final since Sir Bobby Robson’s side reached the last four at Italia 90.
  • (4) US congressman Luis Gutiérrez celebrated Obama’s decision on Tuesday, saying in a statement, “I am overjoyed and overwhelmed with emotion.
  • (5) Lionaid, a UK-based charity that is calling for the UK to follow suit with a ban on lion trophy imports, said it was “overjoyed” by the move.
  • (6) We are absolutely overjoyed to bring Siem to the club because he will give us intelligence in the final third and create goalscoring situations, which we lacked towards the end of last season,” the Newcastle manager, Alan Pardew, said.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest World Cup 2014: Brazil fans overjoyed by win over Cameroon – video There is still work to do and Chile will take encouragement from the way that Cameroon opened Brazil up in the opening 45 minutes, when the defensive limitations of Dani Alves were once again exposed.
  • (8) Tell them their work was about to disappear from that conversation without the production of a credit card, and they would not be overjoyed unless they knew it was the only answer in business terms.
  • (9) Informing Mo Yan of his win today, Englund said the author, who was at the home in China where he lives with his 90-year-old father – was "overjoyed and scared".
  • (10) Yet most US eco-campaigners were overjoyed by Chu's appointment last year.
  • (11) And Tony Abbott must’ve been overjoyed to discover he could saddle Turnbull with the most difficult and absurd portfolio to sell – opposing the hugely popular and globally applauded National Broadband Network (NBN).
  • (12) Critics said it was too low to be a true living wage , but IDS was overjoyed.
  • (13) I spoke to them them this afternoon, and they were just overjoyed.
  • (14) Mark Roberts, chief superintendent with the local Trafford police force, admits he was not overjoyed when he heard the Warehouse Project was upping sticks from its old location in the city centre to a site near the Old Trafford football ground in his district last year.
  • (15) No one is more overjoyed than a lightly regulated building industry.
  • (16) The outside world, overjoyed by the election of America’s first black president just eight years ago, is asking: how did it come to this?
  • (17) I’m sure Angela Merkel must have been overjoyed, but it strikes me that if the main thrust of economic policy is that the rest of Europe deflates against an already competitive Germany, then the outlook for Europe is grim indeed.
  • (18) If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?” said Francis shortly after his election and the liberal commentariat was overjoyed.
  • (19) Jennifer Lawrence, who was nominated for best actress for the third time for Joy, the biopic of Miracle Mop inventor Joy Mangano, said: “I am beyond grateful and humbled by this nomination ... For me, working with David O. Russell has been nothing short of extraordinary, and I share this nomination with him as well as our incredible supporting cast.” Brie Larson, also nominated for best actress for Room, tweeted that she was “overjoyed”.
  • (20) I am overjoyed to finally have an answer and a treatment, but also sad about the opportunities not taken and times with friends and family that I have missed.